On 15-Jul-98 Perry E. Metzger spoke unto us all:
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# I just committed the xcolorsel package, which uses the athena widgets.
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# If I wanted it to use Xaw3d, what would the proper hacks to the
# package be?
This is something I've brought up before. Right now our pkg system handles
this poorly.
If I was building this by hand.. I would just change the -lXaw to -lXaw3d (or
-lXaw-Xpm if that was my preference)
however, if you make a pkg that uses the Xaw3d widget, you force the user to
make that choice. For someone like me, who wants Xaw-Xpm widgets.. it's
slightly annoying.. For someone with low mem or a pissy video card, you force
them to use a server hog widget set. There really needs to be a way we can
deal with optional dependencies. I don't really have any good ideas though..
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Tim Rightnour - root@garbled.net
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